Interesting food combinations.

So, I was sitting here looking at the little tub of hummus next to me and wondering how to eat it. I ran out of pita earlier today, didn't really have any other bread products and was a bit hesitant to just eat it with a spoon. This prompted a run to the pantry where I found funyuns.... I know, strange idea.

Long story short, I just discovered that funyuns and hummus taste good together.

Anyone else have any strange food combinations that taste good but probably shouldn't?

Another example I have comes from some of my experamenting in the kitchen. Peanut butter omlettes. I kid you not, it tastes good if you add just a little bit of peanut butter while it cooks.

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Cucumber Slice Bolognese.

This odd food combo was something I developed a taste for as a sympathetic reaction to when I was hanging around a family friend who was pregnant, I didn't realise it at first but if I was around her for quite a while, I craved the cucumber bolognese, but soon after she left, I lost the need to have it at all.

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Teatime? My mom makes peanut butter and jelly omlettes. I'm sorry, I'm afraid my very rare moments of intolerence must rear its head. They are, without a doubt, the nastiest, most foul thing I have ever smelled. The grape jelly turns the eggs green.

That said, I dip my french fries and onion rings in bleu cheese dressing. Not too wierd, I guess.

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morosemocha wrote:

Teatime? My mom makes peanut butter and jelly omlettes. I'm sorry, I'm afraid my very rare moments of intolerence must rear its head. They are, without a doubt, the nastiest, most foul thing I have ever smelled. The grape jelly turns the eggs green.

That said, I dip my french fries and onion rings in bleu cheese dressing. Not too wierd, I guess.

ok... if you added jelly it would be NASTY... I just mean a little peanut butter. A LITTLE not more than two teaspoons.... It melts and adds the richness of the peanut without an overpowering taste..... See... that with the jelly just sounds nasty.....

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Adding peanut butter to chili is also actually really good. Just a couple of tablespoons instead of tomato paste, you don't taste it but it gives a good texture and it's a great alternative for my mother, who's allergic to tomatoes.

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ShatteredMirror wrote:

Those are NOT wierd. Those are delicious combinations! The Hovan place in the mall used to sell little fruit picks for .99$ that would have regular chedder, a white cheese (I think it was a swiss) and red and green appled.

I used to buy four of 'em, sprite, and a bag of chips and call it lunch. Sooooo good...

The first time you looked at her curves you were hookedAnd the glances you took, took hold of you and demanded that you stayAnd sunk in their teeth, bit your heart and releasedSuch a charge that you need another touch, another taste, another fix

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A combination I had recently was pretty good. I have been to a number of Japanese restuarants and takeaway and for most part all they usually sell is sushi, miso soup, yakitori chicken a a couple of other dishes but until I came to a takeaway joint called Itami, I have never come across any place that sold Okonomiyaki before, so when I found it, I tried it out.

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ooooh! People talking about pizza reminded me of one of the most awesome pizza combinations ever. Shrimp, avocado, and I think mushrooms though I don't remember 100% about the last ingredient.

I don't really understand putting ranch on everything either... Though it is really good on raw broccoli and cauliflower and carrots and and and.... *insert random vegetables here* But it should never be used on anything warm... The thought of warm ranch dressing disturbs me.

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If ranch dressing is anything like mayonnaise than I will most likely hate it as things like mayonnaise and McDonald's secret sauce are some of the few foods that not only do I hate the taste of, I cannot even keep down as its like Ipecac to me.

Also there is one vegetable I just cannot stand no matter how it is prepared and that vegie is Eggplant!

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McDonald's secret sauce isn't really a secret - it's thousand island dressing (essentially mayonnaise, ketchup and sweet relish blended together) that's been left in the sun. Okay, so I can't prove that it's been left in the sun, but it sure tastes like it... and ranch really isn't anything like mayonnaise. I can keep ranch down, and I find ipecac preferable to mayonnaise on my sandwiches, so I suppose that's enough to tell you that it's different...